Diseased and Disorderly
DISEASED AND DISORDERLY is a film that uses the paintings, drawings and collages of the neurodiverse artist Eden Kötting to make imagistic gold. Assisted by her father Andrew Kötting, the 2D animator Glenn Whiting and the 3D animator Isabel Skinner the collaboration takes us on a phantasmagorical journey into a world of Eden’s making and then beyond.
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Eden KöttingKey Cast
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Andrew KöttingDirector
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Andrew KöttingWriter
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Hattie NaylorWriter
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Rebecca Mark-LawsonProducer
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Lizzie FranckeExecutive Producer
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Daria NitscheLine Producer
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Glenn Whiting2D-Animator
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Isabel Skinner3D-Animator
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Marcia FarquharVoice Over
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SchneiderVoice Over
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Hattie NaylorVoice Over
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Eden KöttingVoice Over
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Andrew KöttingVoice Over
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Nick Gordon SmithDirector of Photography
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Andrew KöttingEditor
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Jem FinerComposer
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Philippe CiompiDubbing mixer
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Oliver ChererSound Recordist
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Jem FinerSound Recordist
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Andrew KöttingSound Recordist
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Katherine JamiesonColourist
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Mark Shrapnell SmithGrade Assistant
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Tyke FilmsProduction Company
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Project Type:Animation, Short
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Runtime:13 minutes 30 seconds
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Completion Date:May 7, 2021
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Country of Origin:United Kingdom
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Country of Filming:United Kingdom
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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BFI London Film FestivalLondon
United Kingdom
October 6, 2021
Official Selection -
Edinburgh International Film FestivalEdinburgh
United Kingdom
August 12, 2022
Official Selection -
Raindance Film FestivalLondon
United Kingdom
October 17, 2021
Official Selection -
London Short Film FestivalLondon
United Kingdom
January 14, 2022
Official Selection -
Leeds International Film FestivalLeeds
United Kingdom
November 3, 2021
Official Selection -
Cambridge Film FestivalCambridge
United Kingdom
November 18, 2021
Official Selection -
Cinema Touching DisabilityAustin, Texas
United States
October 1, 2021
Winner -
Dumbo Film FestivalNew York, New York
United States
February 9, 2022
Semi-Finalist -
LA Shorts International Film FestivalLos Angeles, CA
United States
July 1, 2021
Official Selection -
Athens Digital Arts FestivalAthens
Greece
September 20, 2021
Official Selection -
Bolton International Film FestivalBolton
United Kingdom
September 29, 2021
Official Selection -
London International Animation FestivalLondon
United Kingdom
November 27, 2021
Official Selection -
Montreal International Animation Film Festival - ANIMAZEMontreal, Quebec
Canada
August 27, 2021
Official Selection -
London Critics Circle Film AwardsLondon
United Kingdom
February 6, 2022
Nominee: ALFS Award
Andrew Kötting is an award winning artist, writer, filmmaker and Professor of Time Based Media at UCA in Canterbury. After leaving school he worked as a scrap metal dealer, a painter and decorator and then as a failed lumberjack in Scandinavia before returning to the UK to study Fine Art, graduating from The Slade in London with an MA.
He has made over a hundred short films, which have been awarded prizes at international film festivals before making his idiosyncratic first feature film Gallivant (1996) a four month journey around the coast of Britain on which he was accompanied by his grandmother Gladys and daughter Eden. As well as the Paul Hamlyn Award he has been nominated for the Jarman Award three times.
Subsequent feature films include This Filthy Earth in 2001, Ivul in 2009, This is our Still Life in 2011, Swandown in 2012 and By Our Selves in 2015 (a collaboration with the writer Iain Sinclair and the actor Toby Jones). In 2016 he produced a multi-media performance piece, Edith Walks, which resulted in a feature-film, a book-work, a CD, an installation and performances across the UK. In 2018 Lek And The Dogs was released by HOME in cinemas across the UK and Ireland and 2020 saw the release of his feature film The Whalebone Box by MUBI and other online streaming platforms, which he made with his daughter Eden and the writer Iain Sinclair.
Conceived before last year’s Lockdown but inspired by the situation in which we find ourselves today, Diseased And Disorderly
is a celebration of difference and the glorification of persistence.
Oh the joys of having been born....
Eden has always struggled to express herself, using a simple sign language such as Makaton or her very limited speech we can only ever scratch the surface of what she might be thinking or saying.
Living with her for the last 32 years has only made her more enigmatic and unfathomable.
But she makes paintings and drawings and collages and sings and laughs and shouts and cries
and amongst these means of expression lies a magic waiting to be discovered. And it is the possibility that this alchemy might afford revelation that keeps our collaboration rich and vibrant.
When we are not sure we are truly alive....
In many ways Eden has become my muse but I am never sure whether it is her ventriloquizing me or me ventriloquizing her. So together with the writer Hattie Naylor I have attempted to give voice and meaning to Eden’s creations. The film enables us to enter a universe full of animated artworks that she has produced and we drift as if in a fugue, hither and dither but ever onwards. Eden inhabits this world in person, we see her in her wheelchair, walking with her walking frame, swimming with the fishes and fighting with the universe.
Every sound we make is a bit of autobiography....
Everything is unclear but there are voices to help us navigate. They ask questions and give answers
like oracles, soothsayers and seers. They are the philosophical glue that holds everything together.
We're only ever certain about what we don't understand....
Eden is the question mark hiding in the corner of every room, she is the catalyst that provokes other ways of seeing, she is the key to understanding.
Diseased And Disorderly is a tale of hope and intrigue.
Or is it a tale told by an idiot signifying nothing?